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Nov. 14, 2013 - Clif High
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20131114 – Clif High Audio #43
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Good morning.
It's um 6 30 AM on November 14th, uh 2013.
It's forty-five degrees, kinda overcast, probably is going to be um cloudy all day here in the Pacific Northwest of North America.
Uh a couple of subjects here for today's woojo.
Uh hopefully it'll be reasonably short.
Uh let's start off with the um radiation issues.
Been in contact with some friends of mine, new friends in um Finland and in Sweden.
And the Finnish guys have helped me a bit with some construction I've been doing.
But the Swedish fellows were uh involved in a study of hospitals from Sweden after the uh Chernobyl uh radiation issue when their nuke plant in Russia melted down.
A lot of radiation went up uh to the northeast uh towards Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries, but primarily Finland and Sweden.
The uh Swedish study that uh I was referencing here was an a was an analysis of the incidents that uh showed up in the hospitals in Sweden uh over the course of a number of years, not just immediately after the um uh Chernobyl incident when the radiation was flying in the air, but uh rather uh for years afterwards, because the radiation they had cesium, strontium, and and uh other heavy elements settle in on the ground there in Sweden.
And so uh the um information was rather telling.
The one key element that I took out of it was that there was a distinct difference in the reaction of the various populations within um uh the hospital demographics from the radiation.
And actually it probably is a cultural issue in my way of thinking, because here's the thing.
Um the native Swedish and Finnish populations did better with radiation issues than did any immigrant uh group, regardless of any racial um uh makeup.
And so it's it's not a race issue because they also had plenty of um uh expat uh you know um Europeans and Americans and so forth that also did poorly relative to the local population uh as regards to the um radiation.
The reason that it turns out this is I think cultural.
Uh well, no, I'm pretty sure it's cultural.
Now the specifics within the cultural element could be either diet or it could be um uh other habits, let's just say cultural proclivities.
Because um uh the Finns, the the Finnish guy I was talking to, uh now he's biased, and I'll tell you why in a second.
He's of the opinion that that it was the saunas, that everybody who uh native guys always live in saunas um in uh Sweden and Finland.
And so he says they just sweated it all out.
Now uh he may really, and as I say he's biased, that's because he builds saunas for a living and designs them, and he's a really cool guy.
Uh but uh as I say he's got a bias there.
Uh but that doesn't necessarily mean that he's a hundred percent wrong.
Uh there was indeed that difference.
Uh when they went through and did the study, they went back and looked at cultural demographics and all of this kind of stuff.
They government spent a lot of money on it there.
On the study I mean, and uh those people that indeed were part of the cultural demographic of um uh native um what I would call deep native in the sense that they retain historical traditions uh into the twenty first century uh were the um or into the late twentieth century, uh when Chernobyl went off.
Um they were indeed um uh uh using saunas all the time.
Um and that is a part of a distinct cultural difference between these guys and uh the natives and a lot of the um uh immigrant population, which has yet to adopt in any significant number uh sauna habits, if you will.
Now there are also uh interesting uh differences that couldn't be uh quantified and qualified relative to the diets.
So uh that is a huge area right there.
So I actually put it down to a combination of the two.
Uh uh My friend in Finland, you know, he's convinced that diet doesn't matter, you'll sweat anything out.
You know.
He has all these horror stories to tell you just that that's the case.
But I I think a great deal of it was indeed the diet.
Immigrant populations were much more inclined to buy, if you would think, um, as we would describe it, um uh commercially processed uh foods, uh over the native uh population at the time.
Uh not significantly, it was about eleven to twelve percent more consumption of those, but coincidentally the delta between the two population groups was about twenty percent of the total immigrant population uh in size.
So um in terms of the most affected by the radiation.
Uh so I think food really did impact it, but we can't also um discount the idea that that the perspiration, the sweating out the daily contact with the ionizing radiation really did help.
Now I'm building a sauna here because it's gonna help Cathy's heart.
Um it's um great for the expansion as a uh vasodilator, bronchial dilator, uh hell, probably a dilator dilator.
Saunas you get into that kind of heat, everything just swells up.
And the and the the thing is that there's a dual combination here.
The amount of nitrous oxide in your body, and then um which is a function of your diet, and then the um uh the effect of the heat in the sauna causes the veins and arteries to swell up.
The nitrous oxide releases from the inside of the um uh cell walls uh within the arteries, uh, and does its job as the facilitation of the transmission of um neurotransmitters, hormones, and all this, but it also at that point kicks loose any arterial plaques or s or um any kind of um a tendency towards that would be uh reduced.
And it's the repeated shock of the you know um uh vasodilator effect and then the cooling down vasodilator effect and then cooling down that is the uh good part of the sauna.
Now it's also you know basically the same thing for the beauty treatment part of sauna, right?
Uh women use saunas because it um allows them to I always say defoliate Kathy plumps me upside the head to exfoliate and also sweat out impurities in the pores.
Um, they perspire, but uh the rest of us sweat these things out.
Anyway, though, uh so you know, in the uh sweating out and getting rid of the toxins in the pores actually aids the skin in looking better and being better, of course, because it's it's physically far healthier, and you get rid of all that yucky makeup stuff.
Um and it uh the skin is just naturally um more resilient, healthier, etc.
etc.
The heat uh shock is really good.
There's another aspect of this, and that's claimed.
Um I can see where the logic of it is.
Uh certainly there, if you go into a room that's 120 degrees, you'll note that most um bacterial infections die out when the body has a fever of about 105 degrees, and frequently viral infections as well.
And so going into this room and being exposed to the heat, especially the uh wet heat that you throw on with the um the water, and it's uh bronchiodilation effect uh has tendency to burn out bacteria and viruses that would otherwise potentially cause you harm.
So the the you know, the sauna has a lot of really good effects, but I'm getting it for doing it here for well, three reasons.
The radiation effect.
There's no doubt about it, it in some way played an effect in keeping these people healthy in the most uh egregiously impacted areas of the um uh Russians' radioactivity uh problem at Chernobyl.
Um I mean I know that that is one of the these two uh identified elements, and I can see the logic in this as well, because it has such deep stimulation.
Unlike these um put them in your apartment infrared uh saunas, uh, which only which penetrate you uh at the cost of an electromagnetic um uh interference of some level from their ballasts.
That's why I don't like the infrared ones.
But unlike those, the uh vasodilator effect is achieved by actually your lungs, uh excuse me, the bronchiodilator effects is achieved by your lungs walking into the hot uh room, and then the change in the atmosphere from hot dry to hot wet.
and it causes some significant physical changes within the celli and the bronchial tissue that are not achieved with these infrared saunas, which are like tanning beds, really, without the tan part.
But in any event, I digress.
So I'm building a sauna.
It's for Kathy's heart, for the vasodilator effect.
The bronchial dilator effect also aids the respiration, gets rid of toxins.
aids the heart by assisting in the pumping getting more oxygen etc.
But then there's the second effect which is the radiation you literally sweat out the stuff the ionizing problems that you encounter as a result of the radiation in the environment.
Then there's the third issue here that's I'm old and I work hard my tendons bitch at me.
I want to get them nice and warm and supple.
So you know I like the heat here in the in the cold weather.
When we're working this hard last year I'd had the don't really skook them here.
I'll tell you about that in a second the grow dome.
and I put in a uh rocket mass heater really crude I mean I didn't finish it out because I was I built it up tore it down three different times because I had some design elements I wanted to check out and I actually wanted to see what it was like on the inside after I'd used it for a while.
Very illustrative if you've ever done that you see exactly where your mistakes are and how easy it was is to correct them.
The designs are simple the costs are low I would recommend anybody that needs a long term heat to really look at the rocket mass heaters you can see all kinds of examples on YouTube.
There's books available there's uh if you go to Permes.com uh or permis.org I can't remember which it is at the moment uh permaculture forum there's a huge section on rocket mass heaters it's well worth the trouble and uh I we'd go into the boat shed we'd work our butt all off all day that has infrared heat from propane so that we heat the objects in the shed rather than try and heat the air.
This way we can apply resin and the object is warm even if it's even if our breath is is uh huffin'out in the air in there and you know it helps for the resin and uh and ultimately paint and all of that kind of thing.
And it it aids us, I mean you can work in there in shirt sleeves because you were quite warm.
But the infrared heat is a little different.
It doesn't it penetrates down into the skin a little bit and you're warm and it heats your blood and then the blood heats the rest of the torso and so on but it's not the deep penetrating heat that I would get afterwards because what I would do is I would fire up the rocket mass heater in the grow dome and we're talking last year in the middle of big storms and in the winter and stuff which we have yet to encounter just yet we've had the storms but not the cold.
Anyway and then um I'd go do my boat work we'd work for a bunch of hours and I'd be uh really feeling it in the tendons and so on and I'd just go and lie down on the mass of the rocket mass heater for a few minutes.
Uh if I didn't fall asleep.
If I fall asleep I lie there for a lot longer than a few minutes.
But anyway, you know I take a half an hour nap sometimes.
It was just extremely pleasant.
I was like a cat on a on a warm brick, you know, um or a dog on a deck in a in a suddy day where you just can't believe that that black dog is sitting out there in the full sun baking out while he's doing a sun sauna, you know it's really penetrating all the way down into him in with the rocket mass heater it was coming up the other way.
And it was really nice let me tell you it got me through a really nasty winter and some hard uh conditions with um uh Kathy's health and this kind of thing because I'd gone out and I was desperate uh for distraction if you will and so I was working extremely hard harder than I probably should have for my age and I felt it and the rocket mass heater really helped.
Now this year we're gonna have this little sauna I'm building I'm gonna put up some pictures of it it's kinda cool we're building a big barrel um I've seen all kinds of designs from Finland and everywhere but the most efficient actually what I was going to initially do is a geodesic dome.
Well tiny dome but then it dawned on me I'd lose most of my heat up in an area I could never get a human up to unless I went to the trouble of building big benches to put humans up there and so on.
And I noticed that's really the solution that they use in a lot of the finished saunas is you have layers of these benches so you can get up at various different layers of heat.
That's not really a design element so much as it is it is uh forced on them by the fact that they build with a regular roof structure and a high ceiling and so on.
And um I have other considerations here we live in an extremely small house so there's no way we're getting um going to surrender any floor floor space for uh sauna in the house itself.
So it had to go outdoors.
And thus it meant a whole separate building in some form and I didn't want to get into all of the structure issues with the building so I was looking for an alternative.
As I said I was originally going to do just a basically a cedar geodesic dome that was reasonably small.
Then I looked at various other shapes uh teepees, wiki up kind of shapes and so on, but eventually settled on a barrel as being the most efficient.
Both st both in terms of as a sauna itself, in terms of directing the heat to you, being able to get access for your body into it, and then in terms of the materials involved and the level of construction.
Because the barrel basically has only two uh supporting walls, the end walls, it's no big deal, there's no internal support structure.
You just have to work out the issue of shaping the wood such that the staves of the barrel will um slot together and give you the effect you need, which is the air tightness, as well as in our case, watertight, so we've got to keep the weather out.
And then uh what I'm gonna do is to put this barrel together.
The barrel's um gonna be held, it's cedar, uh, cedar slats that are basically um uh two by four finished out.
It's really uh five quarters uh by three and three quarters.
Um it's seven feet uh seven feet long, my barrel or seven feet high, but I'm turning it over on its side.
Uh and the barrel is actually being held together by bands.
Initially we're gonna use those ratchet bands uh that you get at like your Home Depot store and for your you know transporting goods on the back of your truck.
But they're gonna be replaced after everything's bashed into place and tapped down and so on.
I'm gonna replace those with some of the Dynell Dukes line because it's UV impervious.
And uh use a couple of turnbuckles to keep the tension on it.
And so basically you you only have to build the two end walls really solid, and one of those is is hardly anything more than a big frame for a door and a couple of little areas off to the side.
And uh then the back end wall is there to just hold your sauna heater, and then the rest of it is just the barrel.
And so you spend a lot of time uh took me, oh I think maybe two hours to run the um forty eight slats uh through uh to shape the cove and the bead, and then it took me another oh forty-five minutes to dato out the notch that will allow them to go over the end walls, and then it took me a weekend to build the um uh the two end walls.
So there's not much time involved in one of these things once you've got your materials.
I got a good deal on some cedar where this guy had overbought a local contractor had overbought a bunch of cedar decking.
It's not clear, it's tight knot, uh that's an issue.
If you build one of these things, be advised that knots heat up more than other other um clear wood, so you have to be real careful what would you choose for your bench if you don't want a little hot spot under your butt.
Um so there are issues there, and you we're gonna have to tap out a few of the knots because they'll pop out uh from the heat anyway.
Um and I've got a solution for replacing them and this kind of a deal.
But it was it was a real good cheap purchase.
You can knock these things out.
I think if one wanted to do it commercially and you had a shaper um, you know, which is kind of like a super duper um router table, such I've got one of these.
I've got every not every tool, but I got a lot of tools here from woodworking uh for boat building, so you know I had that capital investment already made.
But if you made that capital investment and you were to buy these um uh heaters out of Canada, I can't think of the name, I bought one, I can't think of the name of it even, uh, but it's a sauna heater that mounts on the back wall.
Canadians have been producing them for years in this region.
They're uh well liked, uh I know they may be trans-Canada for all I know.
Uh but we see a lot of them down in saunas in this area.
We have a lot of fins in and uh an old Swede community here in the Pacific Northwest.
And so I've done research with the locals, uh but anyway, you could probably crank out these barrel things for a cost outside of labor of maybe a thousand dollars.
Um using knotty wood, maybe more than that uh by half a gin, so fifteen hundred if you wanted to use clear cedar.
There's not a lot of wood in these things.
Um you know, because you're looking at uh two end walls and uh and a diameter of the or a circumference of your end walls is uh what, twenty-eight feet, something like that.
So anyway, there's not much material.
The sauna is really easily constructed, easily taken down because you just undo your ropes and the whole thing will pop apart.
Uh I'm not bothering to fix any of the staves to the end walls with um uh screws or any of that.
It's not necessary with the design I've got as I'll I'll uh we'll post pictures and and we're sort of making a little um stop action uh motion thing of us assembling it too uh to do some pre-video work and I'll see if I can get that posted as well over the next week or so.
In any event though, the uh the sauna component is gonna be um I think really kind of a big deal uh for those of us that are gonna stick it out here and endure the radiation issues.
Now here's the thing.
I we get a lot of offers for us to relocate for Kathy and myself and the dogs to uh move out and other people want to help us um relocate in their areas and stuff.
And as I've been pointing out to people, it doesn't matter anymore.
Radiation is going to be a northern hemisphere issue, and not just in this area.
So for instance, there's a lot of the radiation uh from um uh Fukushima that initially jumped the west coast and landed nearer the middle of the country.
But even that's not a big issue.
The issue is going to be living with radiation because we've got so many nuke plants around the northern hemisphere that are all gonna start going wonky and causing problems, and that this may indeed be, according to what our data is suggesting, the reason that all the people in the eastern corridor fleeing north.
And now we noted ominously that there's leaks showing up in a couple of or in one uh nuke plant in uh uh South Carolina, and it is some kind of an event like that.
I thought it was more than one nuke plant, to be honest.
But there is some kind of a nuclear event like that that causes a panic and people move north in droves.
Now maybe it won't be 220 million people, but it might be a hell of a lot uh of these people flying north in panic, in a way that we did not see in Japan.
Japan, where could you go?
Here we actually have a mindset that allows us to say I can hop in the car and and get the hell out of here.
And so we will see that when it uh when a Fukushima style event occurs here, and we actually think that that's the propellant, if you will, that drives all these people uh north towards Canada.
The um issue there is that the geographic descriptors are such that there's going to be very little of it in our area.
That is to say, there are very little um virtually no indicators for the Pacific Northwest uh people to be fleeing north.
There are a lot of data descriptors that show people from California that will be transiting through this area and the problems it's going to cause for our local population trying to host basically a population several times our own size as it's in transit in a rather hurried state uh towards um areas in the north.
So there will be this impetus from California that we'll do a small diaspora, but our descriptors are really for a much larger event that's mainly Eastern Corridor uh effective.
And so we see lots of the same kind of language affecting the Pacific Northwest that we do Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, that kind of thing, upstate New York, because these are will be areas that large numbers of people will try and transit through on their way to presumed safety.
Now, I don't know when this will occur, it might be a dozen years out.
It was in our long-term data, that data set is still active.
Uh we're starting to see maybe some of the little signs of it.
Uh ever since Fukushima have given it a lot more credit as a potential uh reality.
So uh we've in any event though, so see all of this discussion gets us back to the idea of the sauna and the food and and the exercise and everything else you can do for um uh anti-radiation.
There's some really good articles on Zero Hedge recently about what you can do now to get your body ready for the radiation, to deal with radiation as a component of your environment on a daily basis.
I'm doing things like um you know examining various different iurpetic soaps.
Ionizing radiation is um is dangerous by the way, not only because of the penetration into the body, but because of the continual degradation of low-level ionization upon the skin.
The skin is the largest organ of the body we've got.
It does a lot more things than um uh academics and scientists would give it credit for.
If you notice the if you're uh into the um uh energy body kind of thing, and and you look at um auras and this kind of deal, you see that there's all these different functions for the skin.
So um it's really a key element.
And the ionizing radiation you can think of as like um uh a little welding zap.
You know, like uh you see the little robots in the um automated factories go zap zap zap Zap zap with their with their fingers and they do those little spot welds.
Every time they do that, there's that electrical crack, and you see a little bit of light, and the air gets really hot and smells bad right next to those things.
And that's all these m uh positive ions that are created.
Now the positive ion effect on the skin is very negative.
You know, I hate to get us all confused here.
But positive ions are bad for the skin.
Uh ionizing radiation creates positive ions within the skin.
Excuse me.
A lot of dust and chemtrail activity yesterday.
Anyway, um the positive ions on the skin are uh are actually the things that uh antioxidants are out there trying to get rid of.
Uh because the positive ions go zhingin into the body and cause problems with your um uh oxygen uptake, they cause various free radicals of oxygen to exist.
And you can can sort of like collect these on the skin.
And so if you're exposed to lots of ionizing radiation, as are people in the nuke plant industry, they give them uh lemon balm or Melissa, a tea.
Now the tea is really interesting because it acts on uh at apparently a telemetric hang on a second.
Anyway, uh lemon balm is really interesting as a in its effect on the um body.
Not only is it a um mild um relaxant, it's not even a tranquilizer or a sulfurific, doesn't want to doesn't make you go to sleep.
I don't know if you can drink enough of it to make you really sleepy, but um but its effect on the skin is quite marvelous because it appears to work at a the level of the telomeres.
It actually appears to tell the skin as an organ to begin to process ever so slightly faster in its exfoliation process, that is the sloughing process of the used up skin cells.
Uh quite interesting.
And so that's really what you want.
And not only does it help with the other aspects in terms of calming the skin, calming the body, and so on, but it tells the skin to work faster and get rid of these areas that have been damaged by the uh zing of the ionizing radiation coming through and causing issues.
Um so lemon uh balm tea is quite good if you're exposed to it, uh radiation.
Um it's uh good for the um immediate exposure on your on your skin, that kind of thing, where you're in the proximity of uh known radionucleotides that are causing the ionization in the air.
Uh it's not really good to do much for anything like you know, radioactive iodide that you happen to inhale, or cesium or strontium or any of these kind of things that float on down and get into your body, because while they are ionizing, the general effect is not to degrade your body.
Uh if you're a welder and you work all the time around welding, you may really want to pick up this uh lemon balm as a habit, because you know what it feels like at the end of the day, which your skin is like after doing many hours of welding just by being in that high uh positive um ion environment.
And it's the same uh effect uh that the radiation causes on the skin, uh just a slightly different cause, electromagnetic pulse uh as opposed to the um uh oxidizing radiation uh being emitted by alpha and beta particles.
Um anyway, so there's that respiration, perspiration, uh elimination, and urination.
And so, you know, we're doing uh tonics here that are been investigating in the um traditional Chinese medicine that uh go to the idea of the three systems uh you know, the respiration elimination and urination component are frequently uh impacted by the same tonic.
Uh ginseng, Shizandra, Ajwagonda, um uh what's that other stuff, uh Rhodalia Rosia, uh Rishi mushroom, a lot of these um uh uh herbs and stuff that contain these um uh extremely long-chain polysaccharide sugars affect the body in um a particular way where they seem to get at the uh the the systems, the torso-based systems in uh in a really nice way.
And so I've been investigating those because that's where a lot of the radiation issues are going to lodge, if you will.
Uh but um no real conclusions yet, just trying various different ones and seeing what's going on, uh both with uh my body and then doing the research on them.
Um any kind of conclusion I'll let people know as we go along here.
But I do know that the uh physical things that we can do in terms of exercise, anything we can do to get the respiration working better so the particulate matter doesn't stay there, and that's basically what it is.
If you're exposed to a particulate uh that is radioactive, uh you would just basically don't want it to hang around in your body at all.
And so uh last thing about the radiation.
Um I don't do the wild crafted or wild harvest mushrooms in our area anymore because the uh mushrooms concentrate radiation.
Uh They pull the stuff out of the atmosphere, out of the environment, concentrate it in the mycelia frequently, they'll change the stuff too, to kind of like um uh radionucleotide um uh you know transmutation of the uh elements, but any of that all aside, I don't want to be eating uh uh wild mushrooms in a radioactive environment.
They've done exam analysis in Russia of the mushrooms in the area of uh Chernobyl, and they're just phenomenal the amount of uh heavy elements that these guys concentrate.
Now we don't have the same level of exposure here yet.
But so far, those uh wildcrafted mushrooms that I've come across and looked at with the uh rad meter, don't show anything um you know different than the background.
Uh so it hasn't been a particular element, but I know that over time that's going to be a real issue.
However, I want the mushrooms in my diet because just for that effect, they concentrate and pull um radioactivity out of you as well.
If you get the right kind of mushrooms and your body is not um adversely sensitive to them.
There's a whole lot of people that that um are like that.
They can't eat some of these mushrooms, or mini mushrooms, they're sensitive to the guys, uh to whatever element within them.
I'm not particularly in and I've uh been a mycological um research assistant and uh hunted mushrooms all my life and uh eaten vast quantities of the things and go to eat a vast quantities more, and now I'm starting to expand my dietary basis for the mushrooms because of what we're gonna grow.
Uh we're growing Rishi, we're growing turkey tail, lion's mane, a lot of the medicinals here, because great many of the medicinals also have some level of anti-radiation uh effect, either as a tonic and or as a um scrubber.
Uh so there are a couple of these guys that are known to be very anti-tumor, uh like the turkey tail, that also have uh effects that appear, if you look into it, um appear to be uh anti radiative in terms of the body,
not only building your human body back up after you've been exposed to radiation, because most of these studies are relating that I've been getting into are relating to the mushrooms being used as an adjunct to chemo or radiation therapy for people with cancer, not for use by people that just run into radiation.
So, anyway, so they're in that particular vein, they're at that particular um uh niche, and so our data has to be uh interpreted a little bit widely, but uh nonetheless, uh none of the studies by the way showed them the any kind of a failure of the mushrooms to provide a benefit.
Then many of the studies did indeed show that there was some small percentage of the study group that couldn't deal with the mushrooms, you know, had an adverse reaction.
Uh small.
We're talking uh, you know, probably one to three percent, I think three percent was the largest group I'd seen.
Um in any event though, uh every single one of the studies showed some positive benefit from eating the mushrooms relative to what the focus of the study was, whether it was chemotherapy or um uh radiation therapy uh side effects.
And so the mushrooms are good for you whether you're going through either one of those.
Um in that and in that sense that's really the uh the goal for us is to have these as a tonic as a uh uh preparatory herb for uh old farts.
Uh because you know that's the way it is.
As you get old, you start uh getting more of your uh energy transfer, if you will, from the elements in your environment, you're not generating it as much.
Anyway, so uh there we are.
Uh mushrooms are good things for this.
Uh I deal with fungi perfecti.
Uh I used to work across the uh hall from Paul Stametz.
Uh he's a really good guy.
Uh uh like him a lot, he's really harried and probably is like I am, has no time to do anything.
But in any event, he produces uh really good products, and I highly recommend Fungi Perfecti have been dealing with them ever since he's formed that company.
So geez, that's what, twenty plus years?
Uh we've been growing those kits and uh this kind of thing with them.
Um my little approach of using the trash cans is really good because it's cost effective.
I like the very heavy duty trash cans that don't leach out um pseudoestrogens.
So I get trash cans that have the um uh pro polypropylene symbol on the bottom, and you can uh ask your local guys, which of one is that really dense uh, you know, uh thick plastic stuff.
And then also if you decide to give up doing mushrooms for whatever reason, trash cans still useful.
Uh you take the lids off, uh you set those aside because mostly you don't need them.
Mushrooms do need light, they need indirect light, so I keep them in like a garage or even in the grow dome off in a shaded area with a sheet of glass over the top of the um trash can to hold the heat in.
And for the trash can, what I do is I line it with that uh reflective foil insulation, and then I use these cheap um uh three to five dollar uh soil heating cables, the real short ones, the six to twelve footers, uh, six footers are great if you can find them.
Sometimes those are as low as a dollar.
Saw them at a dollar store once and scarfed up a bunch of them because they're just so small.
Uh anyway, and that's all you need.
You just throw them in there.
Uh then set the open up the mushroom kit and spray it with your little uh dollar sprayer sphistus split and stick it in there and let it go for a couple of days and put the glass on the with a lid on it and then put the glass on it after the mycelium is fully penetrated the straw mass, or the you know, the substrate, whatever it is you're growing it on.
And um off you go.
And the heating cables have a built-in thermostat so that they don't overheat, they're all set more or less to 70 degrees, and more or less 70 degrees is what these mushrooms want.
Uh it means that you produce your mushrooms faster than if you're getting this the things at a lower temperature, so they'll produce at 55 degrees.
They're just gonna take you a lot longer to get the same mass of mushrooms out of them.
Plus the mushrooms, by the way, once you're done with the straw and it's all quote used up, you use that straw to inoculate your garden or to inoculate another batch.
Uh so it's you know continuing to some degree.
I've had the mushrooms go out, oh, let's say six or seven generations from the original sack before I would have to buy another sack and start over again.
Uh and the fungi perfecti, among others, have all different kinds of really good edibles.
I've found no edible that in is not in some way also offering some kind of small uh or large health benefit.
So shrooms are good.
Anyway, so now on to another subject, uh big uh separation here.
Um the this uh Iraqi Dinar stuff.
I've had a lot of questions about this uh before and after the report.
Uh it prompted us in the report to really look for that uh section that showed up because there were so many questions about um this uh not only from from individuals involved in the Iraqi Dinar thing, in terms of people that are holding the Dinar as a quote investment, but also from a number of relatives of those individuals who are basically saying, hey, my eighty-year-old mother, you know, just sank uh thousands of ten thousand dollars into Iraqi Dinar, what's up with this?
And so I um, you know, uh we went in and looked in the data, and it's a scam, as I can tell.
You know, it's a scam.
I mean, I went out and did research on it, and I can't find anything to substantiate it.
The number of people claiming this huge revaluation thing is extremely small.
There's an extremely small cadre that's driving it.
Uh but in the data too, we went on out and set specific filters and looked for any kind of um you know validation for it.
There just is none.
Uh there's nothing in there saying that there's going to be a revaluation of the Iraqi dinar.
There's nothing in the data set that uh in any way supports any of the claims being made by any of these Iraqi Dinar guys.
Further, when I do my research, there's no hundred and ninety currency uh reset of uh of the global money system.
None of this is being organized.
This is all a fantasy.
Uh Iraq is not gearing up and having people come on into the banks uh ahead of um uh uh this kind of stuff.
There's no eight hundred numbers, none of the details being proffered by any of these people in the Iraqi Dinar movement in any way can be validated in any other source.
So it's a single source thing, so basically it's bogus until proven otherwise, and there's no proof otherwise.
Now, coincidentally, there was a lot of data that we condensed down for our report about an incident in or around what we called an RV revaluation office.
And I don't know that's actually an office that these R V guys uh own or rent or something like that, but it's an it's gonna be in an office-like setting that this particular fight is gonna break out, and that's why it's going to be um caught on video tape.
And that's that's the whole thing, is that the uh the data is apparently showing an incident in which a bunch of the uh let's call them uh gullible investors uh in the DENR uh confront uh some of these uh dinar promoters in the in an office like setting, and that uh confrontation is going to be uh caught on video tape and then it's gonna go into YouTube.
Near as we can tell from our data sets, that's gonna be the end of the Iraqi dinar thing as a as a quote um phenomenon, a meme or a movement.
The what will finish it off will be uh seeing these fat old men, uh the dinar promoters uh slobbering and uh fighting for their lives against a uh irate mob of equally old, really pissed off people swinging canes and shit at them.
Um it's um it's gonna be an ugly little fight scene, and it's gonna really emotionally uh put the kibosh in this whole uh scam that's been going on.
Uh so uh which is good.
The emotional damage uh that this has caused uh cannot be overstated these people up and down constantly that way.
Um the uh deliberate emotional um uh manipulation on their part in order to further their economic aims uh is what makes it really bad for the whole uh situation.
In any event, the people are uh that have felt victimized are gonna show up in an office.
I I presume about the the announced reval that you know supposedly is gonna happen and it doesn't, and so on.
No, you know, it's true the r uh Iraqi dinar needs to be redenominated, but redenomination is in no way revaluing.
And if you note, there's a couple of real I mean, these people don't think this through, the people that are the gullible investors.
But you're being told that, you know, uh something that's worth 1100 uh it's like a lira, the Iraqi dinar.
There's eleven hundred and sixty-two of them or something to the dollar, and you're being told that there's gonna be one of those to three dollars or one of those to three thirty-six dollars.
Uh that would mean uh basically that um uh it'd basically be basically be a giant wealth transfer, and it would happen suddenly and so on.
There's no there's no mechanism built in anywhere that this thing occurs.
They're the scammers are using the uh Kuwaiti uh uh currency revaluation as their um proffered historical precedent for uh potential Iraqi revaluation, Iraqi dinar revaluation.
But the situation is entirely different.
Iraq is a conquered conquered country.
Uh Kuwait was liberated after being conquered.
They had to restore their money just as France did after it was uh conquered by the Germans.
And so it's the same exact situation.
Iraq hasn't been liberated, it's still a conquered country, it's still in chaos.
Um it the you have to understand that here's the thing.
Uh at a core level, uh all paper currencies, all uh paper debt-based currencies involve one thing, the confidence and the illusion thereof.
And so you're you would basically be saying here I have 1,162 Iraqi dinar confidence votes per dollar.
And I'm gonna presume that a revaluation is gonna have us be uh thirty-six times more confident in the Iraq government and and its people and its country going ahead than the US when we have a one dollar uh US to thirty-six uh one uh uh Iraqi dinar to thirty-six US dollars.
That's that's what you're basically saying with these kind of revaluations, it's you're saying that everybody on the planet is gonna uh think that the Iraqi government is thirty-six times more likely to survive and do well than the uh US government.
Now, I would agree if the if we hadn't invaded Iraq, that would probably be pretty damn close to accurate, because our government's really fucked.
But um I don't think so.
Now, in terms of getting back to the idea of the confidence in the Iraqi dinar versus the American uh dollar, and I agree, American dollar is a piece of shit.
Uh you know, it's a product I call it the fern, comes from the Federal Reserve, it's a Federal Reserve note.
Um anyway, though, so uh there's a bunch of these scams that are going on out there now.
They are uh attempting to profit off of the uh natural hope that people have that things could change for a positive uh in a positive way.
Uh The Iraqi dinar is no different than the um wanta funds or the um uh bazillions of dollars that are hidden in gold somewhere to be hauled out and distributed equally through the planet.
Bear in mind, if gold's really plentiful, if everybody were given, say a bucket of gold, it'd be worth just that.
The amount of the whatever it is you can put in that bucket, a bucket of sand, a bucket of water.
It's scarcity that makes gold valuable.
Uh you know, this whole thing about um the mass arrest now coming back.
Um I really wish that were the case, uh that there was some, but these all presume an authority that's going to come on in and act in an honorable fashion, and on our behalf.
It's the same kind of thing.
I've got this um friend of mine, he's uh uh strange fellow, and he runs this uh place called um Strange Universe Radio, his name's Sean David Morton.
Uh I like him a lot.
Uh like all of us, he's full of all kinds of human uh foibles.
Uh like myself, he's you know uh batshit crazy quite frequently.
And uh but there's one thing I disagree with him on, and that's this idea that the monarchies were ever the uh on the side of the people.
It's that's a scam.
Uh that's uh you've been sold a um a packet of bullshit.
The monarchies are only there for themselves and never have been there for anybody else, and they are not standing between you and the evil um uh bankers.
There's no such thing as a constitutional monarchy where the monarch is the overriding authority.
This is a uh promulgation or uh um a variant of what I call the external savior myth.
The external savior myth is at the core of the uh messianic religions, these three weird ass religions that came out of the Middle East, that uh the Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedism, all based on this idea that there is an authority uh that is going to come from the outside and save us if we are good.
There's all these, you know, ifs involved and so on, and people use this same savior myth repeatedly, and that's what the Iraqi Dinar is.
There's an author that in this version of the myth, there's an authority that's gonna come from the outside and save the um these uh smart investors for having invested in the Iraqi Dinar by forcing everybody to revalue their currencies.
Note that, you know, if Americans didn't want their currency to be uh devalued relative to the Dinar, they'd do all kinds of things.
And yet here you have people that are supposedly going to allow the American currency to be suddenly shifted I mean I don't know what percentage that is, from eleven hundred and sixty two to the dollar uh to one or to thirty six to um uh one on the uh uh dinar favor.
Uh that's a huge shift, and that would have to be enforced by uh a gunpoint on everybody.
Uh so you know, just the it just doesn't make any sense.
And it's the same thing with the WANTA funds, it's the same thing with the mass arrest.
All of these things go back to the idea of this external savior.
Uh and it's a myth that's been sold to you and inculcated into you if you've lived in any one of the many cultures that have been um polluted by these messianic religions out of the Middle East, because it pollutes the cultural integrity of what it is like to be human, because you should not rely on an external savior myth.
You should be a stand-up person hardening yourself, working on your own self-discipline, and we wouldn't be in this fucking mess.
If too many people have relied on this idea that there's this external authority, and look what we've got.
You got Bush and Obama and Clinton and Pelosi and all these other fucktards.
Um it doesn't matter what country you're in, you've got your own uh, you know, um uh Merkel's and Jerkles and Yellens and Helens and all of these other people.
And they're all a bunch of uh fucking criminals.
And uh they rule you because you've had built into you this idea that there's this external authority that you must cowtow to.
Uh I don't really want to get off on that, but it's this that's why I bitch about this cult of personality.
That's why I never go to the webbot forum or involve myself in any way with any of the bullshit I I promulgate.
Because I don't want to be involved in a cult of personality built around myself.
I know what an ass I am.
You know, that's the last thing I want to do.
Uh and you know, I'm pretty fucking sure that, you know, all of these other uh central banksters and you know um uh corporate leaders, all of these guys, they're assholes too.
Let me tell you guys, they're assholes too.
And uh just like Obama, he's a big fucking asshole, so is Bush.
You know, if you're worshiping any of these politicos, uh, you know, you're succumbing to the external savior myth, which goes back to that whole uh Iraqi Dinar, and it's gonna be externally saved by some authority.
I don't think so.
It doesn't work that way.
Time to get real, you know, get self-discipline, self-responsibility, and take responsibility for uh, you know, for your life, and uh this kind of thing.
So uh it'll be interesting to see the uh uh fight in the Iraqi Dinar office.
There's gonna be gunplay according to our um uh data.
I don't know on whose part uh it's gonna but I say it's gonna, you know, when this thing occurs.
Uh if we've got it right, it'll end that myth, and I think it'll be uh a big ending for all of the mass arrests and a lot of that because a lot of it will trickle over from uh this particular incident.
Okay, so let's see, there was um uh the Rads, the Dinar had been asked about oh Bitcoin.
I don't have time to go into it now, I gotta get myself into exercise mode here and get things happening.
Uh but um uh the Bitcoin has just started.
Uh it's highly volatile, up and down, up and down, as you saw we lost 25% from 395 down to like two hundred ninety-five uh within a few days and then back up to four hundreds.
So it's highly volatile, but that and that's the that's what tells me it's a free market.
You got a billion people on this pr planet or uh a thousand people all squabbling about something.
You're talking about a volatility that must exist.
That's why I know all these casinos, the uh quote investment markets for paper debt are 100% controlled, because volatility doesn't exist that way.
It's as though we're all uniformly moving in lock sync on this thing.
Bullshit, humans don't react that way.
So the the free markets are in the cryptocurrencies, and the um and that is betrayed by the huge level of volatility in there.
But you'll note the overall trend, doubling it in over the uh short period of time, taking a hiatus, doubling that kind of thing, up, up, up, up, up, even though within a daily trend, there's up now and up now and up and down, up and down.
Uh so um Bitcoin guys, Bitcoin been bitching at everybody here since what, 2001 about Bitcoin.
I wish I had a friend of mine online and said um you know, wish she'd backed up the truck at that time, and it's like I wish I had two.
I didn't have any money, we were really strapped then.
Uh it was a good time for us in some other regards, but and that's the way it goes.
When it's got money, it's usually shit around here.
Um but uh when it's everything is here going good, we're not working so we don't have any money.
Anyway, so I didn't buy a lot of bitcoin or anything, and I gave away far more than I had just to get people excited about them and get people uh involved, because I saw it as uh what it is.
It's a killer for the central banks, it's the replacement for the central bank system.
And so uh this is a uh opportunity of a lifetime.
It's probably an opportunity of several lifetimes.
Um Max Kaiser is right, there will still be more people wanting to buy them at a thousand dollars than there are now.
At ten thousand, even more people want to buy them, and probably even at a hundred thousand, there will still be such a huge um uh emotional uh rush to get into them.
It is like gold, it's gonna be like a gold rush.
There will be an emotional component to it that we have not come close to.
Um this is the let me see, if we're if we were following Moore's law on this, we haven't even hit the chasm yet.
We're not we're in the uh early we're just getting from the uh visionaries into the early adopters.
So we're just out of the visionary stage.
Uh this is like saying um you know the PC wave, the pu personal computing wave is coming, and you know it's ultimately gonna end in these highly efficient little handheld devices that are telephones, uh cameras and uh computer all uh rolled into one.
But you know this is coming, you can see it coming, but we're all standing together in nineteen uh seventy-nine, and you just bought your yourself for fifteen hundred dollars, which was huge money.
I mean half the cost of an of a new car.
Uh you just bought the very first kind of personal computer you could get at a commercial level, which was the K Pro two, and it had um you know two K a RAM and it had uh two floppy disks, so you could big floppies too, so that you could write stuff and you could write, you know, maybe uh um I can't remember how limited the discs were.
But in any event, you get my point.
That's where we are relative to Bitcoin.
Uh we're just those were the visionaries then who bought into the K-Pros, who bought into the uh Altair's the real early machines.
Um I was one of that group.
Uh I had a K-Pro 2.
Uh in 79 I had a KPRO 2 computer.
And I knew what was coming.
I saw I saw it coming, guys.
I didn't have any wherewithal, didn't and you know, I went to work for Microsoft because they didn't have money to buy their stock.
When we could, we started buying stock, but but of course we didn't weren't uh financially set up then to see this thing and be able to take advantage of it.
Now what I'm telling everybody is that, you know, at some point in your life, if you live over these next uh say 20 years, you'll be seguing into Bitcoin as your currency.
Or some other alternative that's gonna be like Bitcoin.
And um, you know, maybe even be dollar backed and uh or excuse me, gold backed.
And probably these things will be uh functionally the equivalent of personal to personal gold transfers or silver transfers in terms of how the Bitcoin's gonna work.
So uh, you know, I've been wrong before, but I wasn't wrong about PCs, haven't been wrong about a lot of the data elements, and I'm not wrong about Bitcoin, in spite of what a lot of people have been saying uh since way back when, you know, oh he's old, he's bald, he's ugly, you know, how the hell can he know about these new tech and this kind of thing?
And it's like, well, you know, I know how to read code, and I read the code uh for the implementation of um Bitcoin and the blockchain is a marvelous, marvelous concept.
Not perfect, and it doesn't have to be, because it can evolve.
So um uh, you know, I make no personal profit off of Bitcoin.
Yeah, it goes up, but I'm not selling mine.
So I'm not gonna profit if you buy one.
Um, you know, my two bitcoins, I'm rubbing it together and hanging on to them.
I'm gonna put them in a little nest and hatch them like eggs because they may well be our retirement if we live long enough.
We can get through all the radiation and shit.
Um but you know, if you guys are kids, if you you know, if you're into younger than forty, uh you're really a dumbass if you're not looking into bitcoins and examining it.
That's your future, guys.
And just figure it in a historical context as the medium of exchange between people owning silver that are not able to exchange the silver directly between themselves, and look at it as that, as a medium of exchange, and then start building from there.
There's a lot of really good articles on Bitcoin magazine.
You don't have to get involved in the technical side, just look at it as as how the money operates, how that side of it, they're starting to really report that.
So I gotta get my act together and start doing my bounces and uh work on my om and stuff.
Um and then we're gonna gotta go run around and then come back and uh destroy a deck and then rebuild it so we can put the sauna on it.
Uh we had a lot of damage here from another windstorm recently, a neighbor's fence went down, and so I've got a they've got a hellacious motorhome over there, one of these giant, you know, looks like it extends back five miles.
Uh, but it's got a heater on it that it runs continuously in the winter and and affects your sleep.
So we're doing sound control for that as well.
Uh the mass of the sauna and then a privacy fence on the other side of it with some of these things called feathers that are at the top to fling the sound back, should control that at that part of it.
Anyway, it's been an interesting uh exploration of uh uh uh sound disturbance technology and that kind of thing.
So uh probably the subject of another Wujo later on, just researching into that was uh quite fascinating.
Uh sorry this one is as brief and as uh uh as scattered as it is.
Uh, you know, basically watch out for the rads uh for the Iraqi dinar, and uh if you're not into Bitcoin, man, uh you know, guys, it's like uh there's that yellow shit lying under your feet.
Reach down and pick it up.
It's called gold.
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